Country France Current Site Vienne Work Type Religious Buildings Sub-heading Temples Accession LS000538 View / Detail Oblique view Originating Collection A & D Original Category Roman Temples Date Added/Updated 2013-12-06 23:00:25 DIR Atlas Livia (Wife of Augustus) Donna Hurley. The emperor Augustus gave Vienna, which had by now become the capital of the increasingly romanized Allobroges, the rank of colonia.

This meant that the inhabitants were from now on all Roman citizens. Temple d'Auguste et de Livie is a well-preserved Roman place of worship constructed around 10 BC and dedicated to Rome and Augustus.
After Augustus died in AD 14, he was consecrated by the Senate and Livia built a temple for him near their home on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The Temple of Augustus and Livia, built at the end of the 1st century BC, survives today basically intact in the city of Vienne, France.

(Natural History, by Pliny the Elder, Book XII, 94). During his visit in 1787, Thomas Jefferson remarked that it looked like a Praetorian palace. The temple owes its survival to a later transformation into a church. The building was restorated in between 1823 and 1853.
Closely similar to the famous Roman temple Maison Carrée in Nîmes, the temple in Vienne was originally dedicated to Augustus. Carte postale du Temple d'Auguste et de Livie.png 592 × 362; 484 KB

Across the river in the city center stands the city’s best-preserved Roman monument, the Temple of Augustus and Livia, built around 20 B.C. Excavations. It can be compared to the Maison Carrée in Nîmes. Unfortunately, this temple soon burned down but was probably rebuilt on a smaller scale as a shrine. Introduction.

Temple of Augustus and Livia in Vienne, the Isere department of France It could also serve as new home for exiles, like the Judaean king Herod Archelaus (6 CE).

This house has been identified as the primary place of residence for the emperor Augustus. Media in category "Temple of Augustus and Livia (Vienne)" The following 43 files are in this category, out of 43 total. Livia, as history most often knows her,[[1]] was the wife of Augustus for over fifty years, from 38 BC until his death in AD 14 , an astonishingly long time in view of life expectancy in ancient Rome. The Vienne forum temple was built in about 20-10 BC and was dedicated to the cult of Rome and Augustus. The House of Augustus, or the Domus Augusti (not to be confused with the Domus Augustana), is situated on the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy.


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